natural resources Flashcards
natural resources
any natural material that is used by humans such as water petroleum minerals forests and animals
renewable resource
a nartual resource that can be replaced aat the same rate which it is consumed
nonrenewable resources
a resource that fors at a rate that ismuch slow the it is consumed
recycling
the process of recovering valubale or useful materials from waste or scrap reusig
fossil fuel
a nnrenwable energy resource formed frm the remains of an orginism
petroleum
a liquid mixture of commmplex hydrocarbon copounds used widly as a fuel sourcs
natural gas
a mixture of gaseous hydrocarbn located under the surraface of the earht used for fuel
coal
a fossil fuel that forms underground fro partilly decomposed plant meterial
acid precipitation
precipitation such as rain sleet or snow that contains a high concertartion of aids
smog
photochemical haze that forms when sunlight acts on industrial polluctats an dburnng fuel
nuclear energy
the energy released by a fission r fusion reaction bthe binding eergy of the atom nuclear
chemical energy
the energy released when a chemical compound reacts to produce new compound
solar energy
the energy received by the earht from the sun in the form of radiation
wind power
used of windmill to drive an electric generator
hydroelectric energy
electrial energy produced by falling water
